Graphic Workshop Professional

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Graphic Workshop Professional™ 2.0a
FOR WINDOWS 95, 98, 2000 AND NT

Batch convert between fifty popular image formats; view, crop,
resize, rotate, print and process your graphics; create thumbnails;
and much more, all in an intuitive and easy to learn user environment.

October 15, 1999


	Toll Free Ordering: You can register Alchemy Mindworks' software and order other Alchemy Mindworks products by calling our toll free order desk. We accept all major credit cards. This page also lists other ordering options.
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	Get it on CD-ROM: Have your registered Alchemy Mindworks software shipped to you on CD-ROM. The CD-ROM also includes shareware evaluation copies of our other applications (except as noted), a library of frequently asked questions documents, example graphics from our graphic CD-ROM collections, a gallery of web graphics and a library of fifty royalty-free high resolution colour photographs courtesy of IMS Communications. The availability and contents of the CD-ROM are subject to change without notice -- the lawyers made us say that. The CD-ROM is also available to evaluate our shareware applications without downloading them. It costs $10.00. Graphic Workshop Professional is not available on floppy disks.

Graphic Workshop Professional is the image management package for Windows 95, Windows 98, Windows 2000 and Windows NT. It features multiple browser windows, batch processing, drag and drop, thumbnails, Pentium-optimized functionality and a lot more. Whether you'd like to browse your image collection and view pictures, convert between formats, print your graphics as hard copy, maintain a sophisticated keyword database, drive a scanner, decode pictures from the Internet, process and fine tune your photographs... the list of Graphic Workshop's functionality can run for pages. Graphic Workshop Professional requires a Pentium or better processor. A display adapter and Windows screen driver capable of displaying more than 256 colours are recommended.

If you need a version of Graphic Workshop to run under Windows 3.1, check out Graphic Workshop Classic.

Graphic Workshop Professional received top ratings at Shareware Junkies, ZD Net, File Dudes, Tucows and others.

Graphic Workshop Professional's facilities include:

Convert between image formats.

View files in any of the supported file formats.

Display a slide show of images.

Print image files to any printer supported by Windows.

Reverse image files.

Dither colour images into halftones.

Rotate image files in any increments.

Flip image files vertically and horizontally.

Scale images up or down with optional anti-aliased scaling.

Colour reduce and colour dither images.

Soften, sharpen and manipulate colour images.

Adjust image colour, contrast and brightness.

Crop images interactively.

Move and copy files.

Apply image filters to your graphics, including soften, sharpen and emboss.

Convert between AVI and QuickTime MOV movies.

Maintain an image database with keyword searching.

Run any function in batch mode.

Use virtual memory to work with large images.

Analyse unknown graphic files.

Print high-resolution paper catalogs of your picture collection.

Create Windows icons.

Display and extract frames from animations.

Create thumbnail arrays of your image collection.

Acquire images from a TWAIN scanner.

Add text captions to your graphics.

Identify mystery graphic files.

Create animated screen savers from your graphics.

Quickly edit your pictures -- just right-click on a file and select Paint.

View and convert photographs from many commercial photofinishers.*

^*Graphic Workshop Professional will view and convert graphics provided by Wolf Camera, Konica, The Camera Shop, Mystic Color Lab, Snap Shops, Blacks, Ritz Camera and York Link, among others. These names are registered trademarks of the businesses listed. None of these photofinishers is affiliated with Alchemy Mindworks Inc.

Additional applications:

In addition to the Graphic Workshop Professional software itself, the Graphic Workshop Professional suite includes several ancillary applications. Registering Graphic Workshop Professional also registers these applications. Shareware versions of this software are included with the Graphic Workshop Professional downloadable installer.

GIF Construction Set UltraLight

A simplified version of Alchemy Mindworks' popular GIF animator. Create instant web page animations using the built-in Animation Wizard.

Camera Screen Capture

Capture all or part of a Windows screen to image files (Windows 95 and 98 only).

Rotator

Have your Windows wallpaper or your screen savers automatically changed each morning.

Resource Extractor

Easily locate and extract icons, bitmaps, sounds and other resources from Windows executables and DLL libraries.

Graphic Workshop Professional supports these formats:

Adobe Photoshop PSD

AOL / Johnson-Grace ART

AVI Video for Windows

BGA OS/2 graphic arrays

Casio digital camera CAM

CompuServe GIF (with animated GIF viewing)

Corel CDR preview and bitmaps

Digital Research/Ventura IMG

DCX FAX files

Windows enhanced metafiles (EMF)

EXE self-displaying pictures

FITS

FlashPix

FLI/FLC animation files

Halo CUT

HAM -- Amiga hold and modify

ICO Windows icon files

IFF/LBM

Iterated Systems FIF

JFIF JPEG files

Konica KQP

Kodak Digital Science Camera KDC

Kodak Photo-CD PCD

MacPaint

Microsoft Paint MSP

MIDI music files (play only)

MP3 (requires external player, below)

MPEG viewing

PC Paintbrush PCX

Pegasus PIC files

PFS:First Publisher ART files

PIC (as used by GLpro/GLpaint)

PICT -- Macintosh metafile

PNG Portable Network Graphics

PSP graphic files (requires patch, below)

QuickTime MOV

Seattle Film Works SFW files

Silicon Graphics workstation SGI

Slow scan television HRZ files

Sun Raster RAS files

Targa Truevision

Text files

TIFF

TTF TrueType font preview

UUE encoded graphics

Windows BMP, DIB and RLE

Windows metafiles (WMF)

Windows screen savers (SCR)

Windows WAV files

WordPerfect Graphics WPG

XBM

Should you wish to contact us about Graphic Workshop Professional, please send e-mail to alchemy@mindworkshop.com.

The Graphic Workshop Q&A page offers answers to frequently asked questions about Graphic Workshop Professional.

If you're concerned about the Unisys LZW patent as it applies to files created by this application, please read our Statement Concerning the Unisys LZW Patent.

The registration fee for Graphic Workshop Professional is $40.00. Add $5.00 shipping if you'd like the current version sent to you on CD-ROM. See the top of this page for the number of our toll free order line and other ordering options. Graphic Workshop Professional is not available on floppy disks.

Shareware Evaluation Copy Downloads

CLICK HERE WHILE YOUR FILE IS DOWNLOADING

Installation of these downloads: Please install Graphic Workshop Professional through the Run item of your Start menu. Installing it through Explorer or Add/Remove Programs will usually fail very colourfully. You must have a minimum of 16 megabytes of free hard drive space to install this package -- part of this is used for temporary files created by the installer, and will be freed as soon as the installation is complete.

Select one of the following links to download Graphic Workshop Professional, updated to patch level 12. This file is 6,008,832 bytes in length.

Alchemy Mindworks FTP: GWSP20.EXE.
Castlegate FTP: GWSP20.EXE.
Kingston FTP: GWSP20.EXE.
Quitt FTP: GWSP20.EXE.
Thecia FTP: GWSP20.EXE.

If you'd like to play MP3 files through Graphic Workshop Professional and you don't currently have an MP3 player installed in your system, please see our guide to suitable free MP3 players.

Graphic Workshop Professional's QuickTime MOV file support requires QuickTime 3.0 or better. You can download a free copy of QuickTime for Windows from Apple Computers.

Patches

CLICK HERE WHILE YOUR FILE IS DOWNLOADING

Select one of the following links to download Graphic Workshop Professional patch 17. This file is 3,862,528 bytes in length. Note: you must have installed and run Graphic Workshop Professional 2.0a at least once before you apply this patch. Alchemy Mindworks FTP: GWSP20P17.EXE. Castlegate FTP: GWSP20P17.EXE. Quitt FTP: GWSP20P17.EXE. Thecia FTP: GWSP20P17.EXE. This patch addresses the following issues. Adds support for PSP files. Fixes a problem with the animated GIF viewing function. Fixes a problem with the PCT (Macintosh Pict) reader. Cleans up what we hope will be the last of the TWAIN scanner problems. Fixes a problem with the free rotation filter in View mode. Deals with CMYK JPEG files correctly. Adds a toolbar button link to the on-line manual.

Thanks to everyone who has asked for a logo graphic for Graphic Workshop Professional.
If you'd like a graphic link at your page for Graphic Workshop, please download this banner.
(We ask that you not reference this graphic from the mindworkshop.com server,
as the file name may change.)

The HTML to add it to your page is:

Graphic Workshop Professional's fast JPEG reader is based on technology from Pegasus Imaging. Visit the Pegasus web page at http://www.pegasustools.com for more information about Pegasus' imaging development tools.

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